How does cpanel-based hosting function?
For your info, it's useful to be aware that most of the cPanel-based webspace hosting offers on the present webspace hosting market are supplied by a very insubstantial business niche (as far as annual capital flow is concerned) called hosting reseller. Reseller site hosting is a kind of a small-scale business niche, which supplies an enormous number of different web hosting trademarks, yet offering literally the same thing: mainly cPanel web hosting solutions. This is bad news for everybody. Why? Because at least 98 percent of the site hosting offers on the whole webspace hosting marketplace furnish strictly the same service: cPanel. There's no variety at all. Even the cPanel website hosting prices are similar. Very much alike. Giving those who require a top web hosting service virtually no other web site hosting platform/web hosting CP alternative. So, there is only a single fact: out of more than 200,000 web site hosting brands around the world, the non-cPanel based ones are less than 2 percent! Less than 2%, mind that one...
200,000 "web space hosting corporations", all cPanel-based, yet distinctly named
The web page hosting "variety" and the web page hosting "offerings" Google reveals to all of us come down to merely one thing: cPanel. Under 100's of thousands of different web page hosting trademarked names. Assume you are simply a regular person who's not very well familiar with (as the majority of us) with the web page development processes and the website hosting platforms, which in fact power the various domain names and websites . Are you prepared to make your web hosting pick? Is there any site hosting variant you can decide upon? Sure there is, right now there are more than 200k web page hosting suppliers in existence. Formally. Then where is the difficulty? Here's where: more than 98 percent of these 200k+ different hosting brands around the world will give you absolutely the same cPanel CP and platform, labeled differently, with the same price tags! WOW! That's how enormous the variety on the current web page hosting market is... Period.
The web hosting LOTTERY we are all part of
Simple math shows that to run into a non-cPanel based web hosting supplier is an enormous stroke of luck. There is a less than one in fifty chance that something like that will occur! Less than one in fifty...
The upsides and downsides of the cPanel-based web page hosting solution
Let's not be merciless with cPanel. At least, in the years 2001-2004 cPanel was fashionable and probably satisfied most webspace hosting market prerequisites. In short, cPanel can achieve the desired result if you have just a single domain name to host. But, if you have more domain names...
Negative Point No.1: A stupid domain folder configuration
If you have 2 or more domain names, however, be very cautious not to delete entirely the add-on ones (that's how cPanel will call each new hosted domain, which is not the default one: an add-on domain name). The files of the add-on domain names are very simple to erase on the web server, since they all are situated into the root folder of the default domain, which is the very popular public_html folder. Each add-on domain is a folder placed inside the folder of the default domain name. Like a sub-folder. Next time attempt not to remove the files of the add-on domain names, please. Discover for yourself how good cPanel's domain name folder structure is:
public_html (here my-default-domain.com is placed)public_html/my-family (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-second-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-second-wife.net (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-domain.com (an add-on domain name)
public_html/my-third-wife (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/my-third-wife.net (an add-on domain)
public_html/rebeka (a folder part of my-default-domain.com)
public_html/rebeka.my-third-wife.net (a sub-domain of an add-on domain name)
Are you getting bewildered? We definitely are!
Weak Side Number Two: The same mail folder setup
The electronic mail folder structure on the web hosting server is strictly the same as that of the domain names... Repeating the same error twice?!? The admin guys firmly increase their belief in God when tackling the email folders on the electronic mail server, praying not to fuck things up too fatally.
Negative Sign No.3: An absolute deficiency of domain name administration interfaces
Do we have to point out the utter deficiency of a contemporary domain manipulation tool - a location where you can: register/migrate/renew/park or manage domain names, modify domain names' Whois info, secure the Whois details, edit/create name servers (DNS) and DNS resource records? cPanel does not incorporate such a "contemporary" user interface at all. That's a big problem. An inexcusable one, we wish to point out...
Weak Point Number 4: Multiple login places (minimum 2, max three)
How about the necessity for another login to avail of the invoicing transaction, domain and tech support management GUI? That's aside from the cPanel login credentials you've been already provided by the cPanel-based web page hosting distributor. Occasionally, on the basis of the billing system (especially created for cPanel only) the cPanel web hosting firm is making use of, the avid clients can end up with 2 additional login places (1: the invoice transaction/domain management menu; 2: the ticket support user interface), ending up with an aggregate of three user login locations (counting cPanel).
Weak Point Number 5: 120+ web page hosting Control Panel departments to learn... quickly
cPanel offers for your consideration 120+ areas inside the CP. It's a glorious idea to get acquainted with each of them. And you'd better memorize them swiftly... That's way too impertinent on cPanel's side.
With all due appreciation, we have a rhetorical question for all cPanel web hosting suppliers:
As far as we are informed, it's not the year 2001, is it? Remark that one too...